Triple

T3058801
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Viking Press E60544 entity
Predicate hasAuthorPublished P44842 FINISHED
Object Walker Percy
Walker Percy was an American novelist and essayist known for his philosophical Southern fiction exploring existentialism, faith, and modern alienation.
E323915 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Walker Percy | Statement: [The Viking Press, hasAuthorPublished, Walker Percy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walker Percy
Context triple: [The Viking Press, hasAuthorPublished, Walker Percy]
  • A. Flannery O'Connor
    Flannery O'Connor was a 20th-century American writer known for her Southern Gothic short stories and novels that explore morality, faith, and violence through darkly comic, often grotesque characters.
  • B. Frederick Buechner
    Frederick Buechner was an American Presbyterian minister, novelist, and theologian known for his reflective Christian writings that blend memoir, fiction, and spiritual insight.
  • C. Reeves McCullers
    Reeves McCullers was the husband of American novelist Carson McCullers and a key figure in her tumultuous personal life.
  • D. William Faulks
    William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
  • E. Marilynne Robinson
    Marilynne Robinson is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist known for her deeply reflective, spiritually infused works such as "Housekeeping" and the Gilead series.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Walker Percy
Triple: [The Viking Press, hasAuthorPublished, Walker Percy]
Generated description
Walker Percy was an American novelist and essayist known for his philosophical Southern fiction exploring existentialism, faith, and modern alienation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walker Percy
Target entity description: Walker Percy was an American novelist and essayist known for his philosophical Southern fiction exploring existentialism, faith, and modern alienation.
  • A. Flannery O'Connor
    Flannery O'Connor was a 20th-century American writer known for her Southern Gothic short stories and novels that explore morality, faith, and violence through darkly comic, often grotesque characters.
  • B. Frederick Buechner
    Frederick Buechner was an American Presbyterian minister, novelist, and theologian known for his reflective Christian writings that blend memoir, fiction, and spiritual insight.
  • C. Reeves McCullers
    Reeves McCullers was the husband of American novelist Carson McCullers and a key figure in her tumultuous personal life.
  • D. William Faulks
    William Faulks is known as the son of British novelist Sebastian Faulks.
  • E. Marilynne Robinson
    Marilynne Robinson is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist known for her deeply reflective, spiritually infused works such as "Housekeeping" and the Gilead series.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69ad8578137c81908259dcb27c7d6d7c completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9e1741648190b710b7022252498d completed March 8, 2026, 4:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b1ef0903cc81909a073fe78dbf0b14 completed March 11, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b1efb655688190a70e23325d734601 completed March 11, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b1f080d57c819089fed4e128e39440 completed March 11, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:02 p.m.